Orrin Hatch
Orrin Hatch
Orrin Grant Hatchis an American politician who is the President pro tempore of the United States Senate, serving since January 2015...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth22 March 1934
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There's an insensitivity to life in our society today,
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It was just a terribly botched, miserable, wretched thing, ... We've got to get to the facts.
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They cannot, as they have been doing now for more than six weeks, keep filibuster hopes alive by suggestions and hints, and then claim their political hands are clean when senators on this side of the aisle respond.
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The marble columns will stand tall like silent sentinels and the busts of the great Americans which line the upper wall will study our every move-sometimes approvingly, more often than not with raised eyebrows. As always.
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The focus of the hearing today will be the process,
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The important question is not what your views are on any particular issue, ... You are not campaigning for elective office. The question that needs to be answered is how you view the role of unelected judges in a representative democracy.
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A lot of my fellow conservatives are concerned, but they don't know her as I do, ... She's going to basically do what the president thinks she should, and that is be a strict constructionist.
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The fact that Judge [Samuel] Alito is such a baseball fan gives me even more confidence that he knows the proper role of a judge.
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We must apply a judicial, not a political, standard to this record. Asking a judicial nominee whose side you will be on in future cases is a political standard.
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A judicial standard means that a judicious decision can be entirely correct, even when the result does not line up with our preferred political positions or cater to certain political interests.
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Scorecards are common in the political process, but they are inappropriate in the judicial process. The most important tools in the judicial confirmation process are not litmus paper and a calculator.
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Under the Constitution, the president, not the Senate, nominates and appoints judges. The Senate has a different role. We must give our advice .
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Chief Justice [John] Roberts compared judges to umpires, who apply rules they did not write and cannot change to the competition before them.
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We should evaluate judges and judicial nominees based on the general process for applying the law to any legal disputes, not on the specific result in a particular case or dispute.